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Television
Censorship in the United States

Censorship is the
restriction of ideas, images and sounds from the public to maintain a common
good among people. The four major groups of censorship are moral censorship,
military censorship, political censorship and religious censorship. Most of the
censorship done in the United States is done according to moral censorship laws.
The question is…would the media and the public benefit from loosened
censorship laws? Even though most ofwhat
is considered obscene is in books, movies, and television, both the media and
the public can benefit from reduced censorship.

The first major type of censorship done in
television is self censorship. Self censorship can be done in two ways. The
first way is formal self censorship. In formal self censorship, the content that
is soon to be broadcasted is censored by the network itself. When formal
censorship takes place it involves the complete removal of obscene pictures,
scenes or sounds